Mit Press imprint: 940 books
Choosing Down Syndrome
Ethics and New Prenatal Testing Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
An argument that more people should have children with Down syndrome, written from a pro-choice, disability-positive perspective.
The rate at which parents choose to terminate a pregnancy when prenatal tests indicate that the fetus has Down syndrome is between 60 and 90 percent. In Choosing...
Minitel
Welcome to the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
The first scholarly book in English on Minitel, the pioneering French computer network, offers a history of a technical system and a cultural phenomenon.
A decade before the Internet became a medium for the masses in the United States, tens of millions of users in France had access to a network...
Communicating Moral Concern
An Ethics of Critical Responsiveness
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
A novel reframing of moral agency, emphasizing the responsive habits and skills by which we engage one another's attention to moral concerns.
Modern moral theories have crystallized around the logic of individual choices, abstracted from social and historical context. Yet most action, including...
Sport 2.0
Transforming Sports for a Digital World
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Ramifications of the convergence of sports and digital technology, from athlete and spectator experience to the role of media innovation at the Olympics.
Digital technology is changing everything about modern sports. Athletes and coaches rely on digital data to monitor and enhance performance....
Fundamentals of Machine Learning for Predictive Data Analytics
Algorithms, Worked Examples, and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
A comprehensive introduction to the most important machine learning approaches used in predictive data analytics, covering both theoretical concepts and practical applications.
Machine learning is often used to build predictive models by extracting patterns from large datasets. These models...
Coding Literacy
How Computer Programming Is Changing Writing
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
How the theoretical tools of literacy help us understand programming in its historical, social and conceptual contexts.
The message from educators, the tech community, and even politicians is clear: everyone should learn to code. To emphasize the universality and importance of computer programming,...
Giving Voice
Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
How communication technologies meant to empower people with speech disorders—to give voice to the voiceless—are still subject to disempowering structural inequalities.
Mobile technologies are often hailed as a way to “give voice to the voiceless.” Behind the praise, though, are beliefs...
Critical Fabulations
Reworking the Methods and Margins of Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
A proposal to redefine design in a way that not only challenges the field's dominant paradigms but also changes the practice of design itself.
In Critical Fabulations, Daniela Rosner proposes redefining design as investigative and activist, personal and culturally situated, responsive and responsible....
Connected Play
Tweens in a Virtual World
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
How kids play in virtual worlds, how it matters for their offline lives, and what this means for designing educational opportunities.
Millions of children visit virtual worlds every day. In such virtual play spaces as Habbo Hotel, Toontown, and Whyville, kids chat with friends from school,...
Earth System Governance
World Politics in the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
A new model for effective global environmental governance in an era of human-caused planetary transformation and disruption.
Humans are no longer spectators who need to adapt to their natural environment. Our impact on the earth has caused changes that are outside the range of natural variability...
Global Climate Policy
Actors, Concepts, and Enduring Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
Analyses of the international climate change regime consider the challenges of maintaining current structures and the possibilities for creating new forms of international cooperation.
The current international climate change regime has a long history, and it is likely that its evolution will...
Governing Complex Systems
Social Capital for the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
An exploration of the need for innovative mechanisms of governance in an era when human actions are major drivers of environmental change.
The onset of the Anthropocene, an era in which human actions have become major drivers of change on a planetary scale, has increased the complexity of socioecological...
by Michael W. Klein, Jay C. Shambaugh
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
An analysis of the operation and consequences of exchange rate regimes in an era of increasing international interdependence.
The exchange rate is sometimes called the most important price in a highly globalized world. A country's choice of its exchange rate regime, between government-managed...
Beyond Austerity
Reforming the Greek Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Prominent economists present detailed analyses of the conditions that made Greece vulnerable to economic crisis and offer policy recommendations for comprehensive and radical change.
More than eight years after the global financial crisis began, the economy of Greece shows little sign of recovery,...